3. For promotion to the grade of lieutenant, an All-Fully-Qualified-Officers List (AFQOL) consisting of those officers recommended for promotion on their most recent fitness reports will be sent to the Secretary, who will certify the AFQOL and forward the list with Limited Duty Officer permanent appointment nominations attached to the Secretary of Defense. Those officers determined not fully qualified for promotion will be omitted from the AFQOL, constituting a failure of selection (FOS). The all-fully-qualified (AFQ) standard applies to all designators. The AFQ standard will also be utilized for the mid-year active-duty lieutenant Judge Advocate General's and Chaplain Corps promotions and any officers administratively missed when the original lists were compiled.

4. An official photo, taken within three months after acceptance of each promotion, is required to be filed in the official military personnel file. See MILPERSMAN 1070-180 for the specifications required for the submission of photos.

5. Only eligible officers may communicate with a promotion selection board. Correspondence must arrive not later than the day before the convening date of the board and shall be addressed to:

Navy Personnel Command (NPC) Customer Service Center President Active-Duty FY-16 (Grade) (Line or Staff Corps, as applicable) Promotion Selection Board, Board #XXX, (Board number is a required field and may be found on the FY-16 selection board schedule located at http://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/boards/selectionboardsupport/Pages/FY16BoardSchedule.aspx) 5720 Integrity Drive, Millington, TN 38055-6300

To check on receipt of your package, go tohttp://www.public.navy.mil/bupers-npc/boards/activedutyofficer/pages/default.aspx and enter the customer service center link (check on your letter to the board) or contact the customer service center at (866)827-5672. Written communication may invite to the attention of the board any matter concerning himself/herself that the officer considers important. The written communication must be in accordance with MILPERSMAN 1420-010 and may include, as enclosures, correspondence from any individual concerning the eligible officer. Correspondence not originated by the eligible officer, including endorsements to the officers letter, and letters written on behalf of that officer, must contain a written acknowledgement by the eligible officer that he or she desires that such correspondence be presented to the board. Correspondence without such acknowledgment is considered third party correspondence and will be returned. Classified correspondence will not be accepted.

6. In-zone and above-zone eligible officers in the grades of lieutenant, lieutenant commander, and commander, whose placement on the active-duty list is within one year of the convening dates of these boards, are automatically deferred unless they specifically request to be considered. The officer may waive this deferment and request consideration for promotion, in writing, to:

The request must be received by PERS-80 not later than 30 days prior to the convening date of the board. All officers are reminded it is their responsibility to ensure their personnel records are substantially accurate and complete.

7. The CSCSELBOARD@NAVY.MIL mailbox account is capable of receiving ENCRYPTED correspondence IAW DoD policy. If you are sending your board package from a non-NMCI network (BUMED.mil, EU.NAVY.mil, etc), please visit https://dod411.gds.disa.mil to download the required mailbox certificate.To download the "Cert" (Please note, you MUST be using MS Outlook with a CAC reader, including "ActivClient" software and have Internet Explorer or Netscape 7), go to https://dod411.gds.disa.mil, type CSCSELBOARD@NAVY.MIL in the "E-Mail address field, then click "Search." Click the "CSC" link under "Last Name." Click on the link "Download Certificate(s) as vCard. Click "Software Certificate for CSCSELBOARD@NAVY.MIL." Click the "Open" button for the File Download popup. The certificate will then open. Click "Save and Close." The certificate is then saved to the profile and can be used to send your encrypted e-mail.

8. This NAVADMIN will be canceled for record purposes on 30 September 2017.

To make the math easy on everyone here are the zone sizes and target opportunity for each paygrade this year:

CAPTIn Zone: 22Selects: 11Opp: 50%

CDRIn Zone: 37Selects: 26Opp: 70%

LCDRIn Zone: 69Selects: 59Opp: 85% (5% increase from last year)

Few random thoughts to go with the numbers:- The target opportunity (%) assumes all selects from the in zone population which will likely not be the case as we have seen over the past several years of boards.- This year the zone stamps will no longer be on the briefed records- Make sure to review the precepts and convening order on the BUPERS web page as the boards get closer for specific areas of emphasis- If you are above, in, or below zone make sure your record is up to date with education, AQDs, awards, etc b/c the board members won't do it for you

CNO Guy wrote:- This year the zone stamps will no longer be on the briefed records

That's interesting... where's that change coming from? The board members are still held to statutory limits for BZ selects. What happens if they somehow pick up too many people below zone? I wonder if that will also increase the AZ selections.

Taking off the AZ, BZ, IZ stamps is part of SECNAV's ongoing Talent Management Initiatives with the logic being that those records representing people not in zone have a stigma to them (my words not SECNAV's). With the stamps on the records an AZ record likely got a second look with a more critical eye simply because the individual wasn't selected the previous year, e.g. a "what is wrong" look, when it could have simply been an incredibly competitive zone.

Though the stamps are no longer on the record, those more than a year group senior or junior to the in zone population won't be too difficult to determine AZ or BZ status for. IMHO, we will likely see a few more AZ picks Navy wide, but wouldn't expect any large movement in BZ picks simply because AZ records will have more FITREP history while BZ will have less.

Of course it's all a guess at this stage, a few years of boards will give us more to discuss/speculate about.

Good point with the year groups... if the junior in zone is a 05/2012 person, and the record being screened is a 02/2012 ....... not too difficult to put two and two together. I didn't realize the year group is displayed. Now I have to take another look at my ODC.

While not specifically categorized by zone, the above-zone and in-zone records will still be marked and graded accordingly, and briefed to the Tank. The below-zone records will not be graded or briefed, they'll only be displayed and the records selected by the board will be moved into the "crunch" and reviewed as a "normal" record without any annotation.